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Jul. 1st, 2005 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaThere was a line of Spin that made me think, "Yes, I want to read that book instead of this one." That line was, "It was the Tribulation reconfigured as Elizabethan drama." So, y'know, anyone who wants to handle that....
This is one of the things about Robert Charles Wilson books: he often mentions that people elsewhere are handling things interestingly, but then he doesn't go there and show us. I want the red roses on the rival's corpses and the extremely high-tech dueling pistols. I want characters who are doing a hell of a job at whatever they're doing instead of wandering around behind this guy they knew when they were 10.
I have a Dorothy Dunnett book in my backpack for next, so that's okay then.
Also: the problem with the Indigo Girls' "Jesus Christ Superstar" is not at all having a girl Jesus. The girl Jesus is one of the best things in it (the girl Simon Zealotes is actually my favorite). The problem is that half the cast appears to have shown up to read the thing for the first time when they were supposed to be recording. And smoked a good deal too much weed in the process. So you end up with lines that are supposed to sound irate or dismayed and instead sound confused-stoned. Girl-Jesus is fine, though. Half of the Indigo Girls makes a better Jesus than the other half makes a Mary Magdalen, I think.
This is probably because I am a hippie menace, but I'm okay with that.
This is one of the things about Robert Charles Wilson books: he often mentions that people elsewhere are handling things interestingly, but then he doesn't go there and show us. I want the red roses on the rival's corpses and the extremely high-tech dueling pistols. I want characters who are doing a hell of a job at whatever they're doing instead of wandering around behind this guy they knew when they were 10.
I have a Dorothy Dunnett book in my backpack for next, so that's okay then.
Also: the problem with the Indigo Girls' "Jesus Christ Superstar" is not at all having a girl Jesus. The girl Jesus is one of the best things in it (the girl Simon Zealotes is actually my favorite). The problem is that half the cast appears to have shown up to read the thing for the first time when they were supposed to be recording. And smoked a good deal too much weed in the process. So you end up with lines that are supposed to sound irate or dismayed and instead sound confused-stoned. Girl-Jesus is fine, though. Half of the Indigo Girls makes a better Jesus than the other half makes a Mary Magdalen, I think.
This is probably because I am a hippie menace, but I'm okay with that.
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Date: 2005-07-01 11:15 pm (UTC)So is the Tribulation a Robert Charles Wilson thing? (We went to the theater last night, and that always makes me want to write a play, silly creature that I am.)
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Date: 2005-07-02 04:00 am (UTC)Enter WHORE, on the back of BEAST, that sort of thing.
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Date: 2005-07-02 04:19 am (UTC)Not a word I'd heard applied to Armageddon and Apocalypse before.
And of course I can't take it seriously because it makes me think of Tribulation Wholesome from Jonson's Alchemist. Although of course that may very well be where Jonson got it from.